TBAY: Radio TBAY and the inconsistent behaviour of Albus Dumbledore

[dicentra63]

No: HPFGUIDX 45230

PIPSQUEAK: Dicentra on line 3.

DICENTRA: Hello?  Can you hear me?

PIPSQUEAK: Turn your radio down, caller.

DICENTRA: What?  Oh.  Um.  I just wanted to point out that when
Dumbledore is amused at Snape's fury, that's not the first time that
night he'd been amused at someone's frustration.

PIPSQUEAK: When would that be?

DICENTRA: Earlier, when Tt!Harry and Tt!Hermione see what really
happened when they went to excecute Buckbeak.  They found him gone,
and the executioner says:

"It was tied here!" said the executioner furiously. "I just saw it. 
Just here!"

"How extraordinary," said Dumbledore.  There was a note of amusement
in his voice.

Then later....

"Mcnair, if Buckbeak has indeed been stolen, do you really think the
thief will have led him away on foot?" said Dumbledore, still sounding
amused.

You see, Dumbledore is amused at their fury (Snape's and Mcnair's)
because he knows they have been thwarted, and he knows *he's* the one
who orchestrated it.  Dumbledore is often amused by his own
cleverness, as seen in PP/PS when he confides to Harry that hiding the
 Stone in Erised was one of his better ideas.  

Snape and Mcnair are both trying to accomplish something that
Dumbledore doesn't want done, and without their knowing, Dumbledore
fools them both.  I'd be amused, too.

--Dicentra, who'd like to say hi to her mom on the air, ok?